Striped stocking



Dec. 30,v 1930. E. T. FLOYD STRIPED sTocKING Filed June 19, 1928 wmpintil y! ill-l.: ill-vigili Earl Tamas Playa gnam/toc @www Patented Dec.30, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EARL THOMAS FLOYD, OF NEAR TEMPLE,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE NOLDE AND HORST COMPANY, OF READING,PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN-l SYLVAN IA STRIPD sTocxINGApplication filed June 19,

This invention relates to knitted stockings having longitudinalstriping; and it provides for producing improved ornamental eEects byemploying in connection with contrasting body yarns knitted inalternating courses, separate striping yarn interknitted Withl one orother-*of said body yarns in determined walesl only, with unknittedportions thereof at the rear floated vdiagonally across interveningcourses ofthe other vbody yarn, as fully set forth in connection with-the accompanying-drawing and clearly defined in the subjoined claim.v

Fig. l is an outline View of a stocking with a fragmentary diagrammaticshowing thereon to indicate the improved ornamentation which myinvention provides for; the novel construction thereof being clearlyrevealed by the enlarged showing thereof in Fig. 2. Fig. 3diagrammatically indicates a two-feed cam arrangement for yproducing thealternating courses of different yarns in the knitting of the stockingbody. v v

The stocking'body indicated is knitted of two different yarns b and c,shown in enlargedFig. 2 as ofdifferent coloring; these being knittedsimultaneously inalternating courses, by the action of two sets ofknitting Acams as indicated in Fig. 3, so the Whole body is made up of.closely parallel `contrasting courses.

In the diagrammatic double-feed knittingcam showing of Fig. 3, arrows band o indicate the'respective body yarn feeds to corresponding needleswliich are not shown. The stripe effects such as indicated in Fig'. l,are produced `by simultaneously feeding a lating yarn d to certain ofthe needles, as

etermi-ned bythe width ofl the stripe to be produced and the desiredcolor effect, arrow d indicati-ng the feed -of said plating yarn.

This additionalyarn is fed for instance, as indicated in the drawings,to needles which are knitting the lighter body yarn, so as to be formedinto loops with the latter indetermined wales of the course and producea different color effect in said wales from that produced by saidlighter colored body yarn in the main portion of the course; theportions of this additional plating yarn which 1928. Serial No. 286,679.

are not so interknitted being floated at the rear of the fabric, indiagonal lines crossing the intervening course of different body yarn asshown in Fig. 2.

If the additional yarn thus platingly interknitted with this body yarnis made to correspond with the other body yarn ofthe adjacent courses, asolid stripe effect is produced Without showing of the lighter coloredbody yarn therein; if this additional yarn differs in coloring from bothof the body yarns a. radically dierent stripe effect is produced; and ifthe additional yarn is fed with and interknitted with the other bodyyarn instead, a still different effect is produced; so that a greatvariety of designs may be readily produced by required variations in therelative character of the additional plating yarn employed, by itsinterknitting with one or other of the different body yarns employed inthe alternate courses, and by. variation in the number of wales in whichthe plating thread is made to appear; the hidden floating p0rtions ofthe latter in all cases diagonally crossing an intervening course.

What I claim is A stocking knit with two different body yarnssimultaneously fed in alternating courses, and having separate stripingyarn plaitedly interknitted in each Wale with one of said body yarns toappear on the surface in the alternate courses of determined Wales andwith each rear portion of said striping yarn floated diagonally acrossan intervening course of the other body yarn to appear only on thereverse side of the stocking.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

EARL T. FLOYD.

